Perhaps the most important work printed in the Hawaiian language.  It demonstrated a functioning, measured, ruling government to foreign powers that, perhaps, had designs on acquiring Hawaii for themselves.  It shows that the country was "civilized" and deserved recognition as a self governing country.  This came at a very critical time when both France and England were carving up the Pacific and eyeballing Hawaii.  This copy, unlike many, is in the original binding as issued.  The cloth spine is still present under the Library cloth.  A key part of a Hawaiian collection.  Forbes 1269.